Gstreamer/phonon on Windows

[Chris Browet]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 22:59, Patrick Spendrin <ps_ml at gmx.de> wrote:

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> Chris Browet schrieb:
> > Continuing on this old thread, I made the gstreamer phonon backend work
> > on Windows (phonon from Qt 4.6.0).
> >
> > After trying every single backend on Windows, I think this might be the
> > good one, although I need to do further testing. Although based on the
> > Qt phonon, I see no reason it wouldn't work for the KDE one.
> >
> > The current patch vs. Qt 4.6.0-rc phonon is available
> > at http://gitorious.org/mythq/mythq/trees/master/contrib
> > I used the gstreamer for Windows binaries available
> > at http://www.gstreamer-winbuild.ylatuya.es/doku.php
> > Tested with the qmediaplayer coming from the Qt demos.
> >
> > Regards
> > - Chris
> > <http://gitorious.org/mythq/mythq/trees/master/contrib>
> >
> Hi, there are some points with gstreamer itself, but definitely this can
> be some valuable work since it brings all phonon backends to windows
> (and makes it possible to choose).
>
> What I would ask you to do though is to base your patch on the trunk of
> phonon in kdesupport, the only place where we can get the patch merged
> into (I am not sure there is enough interest within Nokia to get
> gstreamer-backend working on Windows) and where we still do base our
> builds upon.
>
> About your patch:
> - - there are still some whitespace changes (you probably know already)
> - - as mentioned above a patch against kdesupport could help us more.
>
> regards,
> Patrick
>
> p.s.: I am currently doing 4.3.4 builds, if you have some time left
> today or tomorrow and you could get the gstreamer backend building in
> kdesupport then I could release a new phonon package which would include
>  the gstreamer backend.
>

I'll take some time tomorrow to try it vs. the KDE trunk and Amarok.

Regards
- Chris -
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